Comments on: Android pattern-lock stumps FBI in prostitution casehttp://www.slashgear.com/android-pattern-lock-stumbs-fbi-in-prostitution-case-14218448/
Feeding Your Gadget and Tech ObsessionsFri, 31 Oct 2014 23:36:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: John doehttp://www.slashgear.com/android-pattern-lock-stumbs-fbi-in-prostitution-case-14218448/#comment-195774
Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:18:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218448#comment-195774Ah i guess they moved it to secure in ICS.
]]>By: John doehttp://www.slashgear.com/android-pattern-lock-stumbs-fbi-in-prostitution-case-14218448/#comment-195775
Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:18:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218448#comment-195775Ah i guess they moved it to secure in ICS.
]]>By: LKhttp://www.slashgear.com/android-pattern-lock-stumbs-fbi-in-prostitution-case-14218448/#comment-195730
Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:56:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218448#comment-195730 Great info! Thanks! It headed me in the right direction in android version 2.3.4 the setting was in the settings database but in the location;
sqlite> update secure set value=0 where name=’lock_pattern_autolock'; sqlite> .exit
note ~~~~~ the setting was in “secure” instead of system. otherwise worked great!

]]>By: Haris Radzihttp://www.slashgear.com/android-pattern-lock-stumbs-fbi-in-prostitution-case-14218448/#comment-194320
Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:52:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218448#comment-194320Seems like FBI never used Android before, all they know is slide to unlock lol
]]>By: JRDemaskushttp://www.slashgear.com/android-pattern-lock-stumbs-fbi-in-prostitution-case-14218448/#comment-194131
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:58:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218448#comment-194131What about that device that plugs into the phone and downloads the information from it? Read a story last year about some law enforcement agency that had ordered or purchased them. Would that not work?
Or has the device not been released yet?
]]>By: Hanhttp://www.slashgear.com/android-pattern-lock-stumbs-fbi-in-prostitution-case-14218448/#comment-194064
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:14:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218448#comment-194064To prevent clever “smudge crackers”, you can obviously either clean the screen regularly like you should, or make the pattern “cross over” your typical page swiping gesture. That way, it’s hard to tell which smudge portion is the pattern and which portion is just part of the page swipe.
]]>By: Kiran Jadhavhttp://www.slashgear.com/android-pattern-lock-stumbs-fbi-in-prostitution-case-14218448/#comment-194016
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:51:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218448#comment-194016OR the FBI could just ask the operator to provide the call and SMS details of this guy.
]]>By: Faulkme_218http://www.slashgear.com/android-pattern-lock-stumbs-fbi-in-prostitution-case-14218448/#comment-194012
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:01:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218448#comment-194012Although complicated, it is very possible to get around android locks. I have successfully hacked into several ipod touches and iphones of various generations. The techniques i’ve used included jailbroken devices and a few programs like, universal viewer to decipher the code, and an SSH program like winscp or ifunbox. This article makes them sound so secure but i assure, they are not.
]]>By: Atifhttp://www.slashgear.com/android-pattern-lock-stumbs-fbi-in-prostitution-case-14218448/#comment-193995
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:22:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218448#comment-193995as far i know they just want the call and sms logs, thus any use of reset will erase it
plus same goes for the pimp, if he just dialed the wipe code …….
]]>By: Atifshhttp://www.slashgear.com/android-pattern-lock-stumbs-fbi-in-prostitution-case-14218448/#comment-193994
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:19:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218448#comment-193994*2767*3855# would have solved his problem much better lol :P
]]>By: Dan Lavatanhttp://www.slashgear.com/android-pattern-lock-stumbs-fbi-in-prostitution-case-14218448/#comment-193978
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 05:51:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218448#comment-193978This won’t work. They may be able to use the phone with a factory reset, but they would lose all the data.
]]>By: Dan Lavatanhttp://www.slashgear.com/android-pattern-lock-stumbs-fbi-in-prostitution-case-14218448/#comment-193975
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 05:46:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218448#comment-193975I’m not sure what the author means by “PC operating systems are easily cracked”. Anyone who cares about data security will encrypt the entire PC drive and the FBI can’t really crack it as long as the passphrase isn’t in a rainbow table. The people who make rainbow tables seem to door a poor job of covering the entire unicode password space.

Anyway, the PC processors can handle larger encryption keys and are ultimatley much more secure.